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    Allis HD7, Parts machine, any interest?

    My dad got a front idler for the hd7 from there. He had all kinds of treasures hiding in the weeds, but I never got to wander through it before it all got crunched for scrap.
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    Looking to buy a new tractor

    The farm that I work on has been through several new JD tractors in the last several years. Three 6105D's (two had starters eat the flywheel, one caught on fire, one blew an engine at less than 500 hrs., one had AC issues. All had 3X3 trans with unsyncronized ranges (not enough gears) and all...
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    Old Lincoln Welder

    I've got one of the old Lincoln round-top AC machines in my barn just like the OP. The on/off switch and the amp crank are the only functioning adjustments. I prefer to run DC, but the price was right (free). A family member owned it for years, the ON/OFF switch started to fail, he figured out...
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    Junkyard's work thread.....maybe haha

    I took two of my grandsons to the farm a couple of weekends ago. They got to scoop some dirt with a loader, ride in an articulated tractor, and get some seat time in an excavator. They had almost as much fun as I did. The six-year-old is pretty timid, but the four-year-old wanted to put the...
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    Junkyard's work thread.....maybe haha

    I've left two REALLY good jobs to go stir dirt. I don't get to work much ground anymore. I'm sort of foreman, mechanic, trainer, janitor, plumber, electrician, carpenter, and shoveler. My seat time is mostly planting and combining. We're starting to work ground and gearing up to plant corn. I...
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    Junkyard's work thread.....maybe haha

    Great thread! Finally got it all read. I lived in Stillwater area for 9 years, but now I work for a farm a little southeast of Joplin. We've got some fields in Duenweg, but most are scattered southeast of there for about sixty miles. I hope I don't get in your way on the road sometime (I'm...
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    Kobelco SK210LC

    I ordered a windshield and sunroof from Hayden Equip. In Springfield, MO for a SK250 LC a couple of years ago. Had no problems with them.
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    Stubborn belly pan bolts

    Got the kobelco going yesterday. Boss wanted to beat the rain. I put one bolt back in with the big nut still on it, cleaned up the other I had welded, and liberally applied never-seize to all three. Kinda like me, "ugly but effective"! (That's what my wife says, too.) Thanks for all the advice!
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    Stubborn belly pan bolts

    I got them out! They wouldn't budge this morning, then tried hammering, no luck. Went digging and found a large jam nut (ID a little under the head OD, about 1\2" thick, and had a 46 mm socket that fit it). Welded a small bead around the allen hole in the bolt to keep the nut from sliding off...
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    Stubborn belly pan bolts

    The 'smart' end of the hammer is the end you give to the ambitious young assistant. Maybe even loan him some vise-grips to hold the punch with. Not the new pair though!
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    Stubborn belly pan bolts

    Maybe the boss will spring for a 3\4 Magdrill. (Not likely, but I can always dream can't I?) I was hoping for "just grab some some 'Magic-Mystery Bolt Remover', apply liberally, wait five minutes, and watch the bolt spin itself out"! I don't think the heads are seized to the plate...
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    Stubborn belly pan bolts

    Need some advice. Flat-head bolts, down flush in a countersink, about 19-21? mm, with a 14 mm allen socket. (Kobelco sk250). Need to drop at least half of the split pan to fix a track drive hydraulic leak. Have broken two 3\4"-1\2" drive adapters (one with a breaker and cheater and one with a...
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    JD450C

    I worked on die-casting dies for several years, (some were over 45,000# assembled). Broken bolts were a daily occurance. We discovered that a simple air engraving pencil with a dull point worked surprisingly well. The combination of steady counterclockwise pressure and vibration would spin...
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    WW2 Iron

    I realized this morning that I didn't explain that the detroit used an air box between the blower and cylinder ports. This isolated the crankcase from the intake charge so a standard oil-lube system could be used instead of oil-mix like a gas 2-stroke. I believe this box was the source of...
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    WW2 Iron

    If you look at a small, single cylinder, gas 2-stroke, when the piston travels up (toward the head, after passing the intake port) it's creating a larger air-space in the crankcase. This pulls a vacuum and sucks air (and fuel/oil mix) from the carburetor thru the reed valves into the crankcase...
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    WW2 Iron

    I had a neighbor one time that would get waste oil when his buddies changed their oil and that’s what he poured in his pickup. He never changed the oil, just added some every day. Never changed the filter either. Then complained cause he had to do engine swaps all the time! LOL.
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    D9h bevel gear shaft.

    I knew a guy that bought a small JD dozer used. After about 4 hours pushing dirt he noticed a small trail of oil following it. The trans case had an ~11” long crack down the side. The previous owner had covered it with silicon and sold the dozer. Trans removal, complete tear down, hours of...
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    WW2 Iron

    There’s a local truck that gets fired up a couple times a summer. Jimmy with a 318? DD. It’s the last thing pulled at the local truck/tractor pulls. It has a propane line plumbed into the intake for a little more “juice” and the governor has been “adjusted”. It makes a good Grand Finale! My...
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    Found a old use still works

    Gotta love those locust. If you run short of them I can get you some spare trees from down here. We've got plenty! Shipping might be a pain, literally! I don't know why they're called Honey locust, ain't nuthin sweet about them. WAIT, maybe because when you get around them you eventually...
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    WW2 Iron

    The fact that detroit two strokes are still out there working every day is an example of ww2 tech that lasted. Some armies went into ww2 with horse drawn artillery. By 1945 they were using jet aircraft, long range rockets, compound turbos, and accurate radar. Willie B, I walked a lot of...
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